Wildlife & Nature Finalist

The photographs in this series were taken by a wildlife camera. Exposures were made when animals activated the camera via motion sensors, in the absence of the photographer and without his intervention. He was responsible for the preparation and follow-up work; installing the wildlife cameras in carefully selected locations and evaluating and processing the images that were generated over a period of months. The finished work is thus a co-production with the wild animals, whose decisive part — the moment the image is created — was not chosen by the photographer.

Wolfgang Duerr (b. 1967) studied at the State Academy of Photography in Munich before working as a freelance photographer specialising in architectural and documentary photography. Since 2020 he has worked exclusively on freelance projects.